To:THE MEMBERS OF THE POLITICAL BUREAU OF THE C.C., R.C.P.(B.)[1]

Written:Written in January, not earlier than 5 and not later than 23, 1920Published:First published in 1959 inLenin Miscellany XXXVI.

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Membersof the Politbureau

Ivoted against this decision of the C.P.C., but I
consider it inconvenient to rescind it at once.

Ipropose, without calling together the Politbureau, to
collect the votes of its members. My proposal: to get an
immediate decision of the C.P.C. that the State Control
is obliged to let the Food Commissariat know about every
such case. In a month or so we shall see.

[1]OnJanuary 5, 1920, Tsyurupa sent a letter to the C.C., R.C.P.(B.)
in which he pointed out that the decision adopted by the Council
of People’s Commissars on January 3, 1920, permitting agencies
of the Supreme Economic Council to purchase forage at free prices
in cases where the State Control found it impossible for agencies
of the People’s Commissariat for Food to supply forage to S.E.C.
enterprises, violated the principles of the Food Commissariat’s
food policy and did away with the forage procurement monopoly.
He requested that the matter be discussed in the C.C., R.C.P.(B.).